Non-blocking pipe using popen?

Question

I\'d like to open a pipe using popen() and have non-blocking \'read\' access to it.

How can I achieve this?

(The examples I found were all blocking/synchrono

Answer 1

Never tried it but I don't see why you couldn't grab the file descriptors with fileno(), use fcntl() to set to non-blocking, and use read()/write(). Worth a try.